Current activities
We are currently organising the following activities:
12 June 2025 - Guided Walk: Traces of Slavery at Utrecht University
In collaboration with students and staff from the departments of Cultural Anthropology and Educational Sciences, the Contesting Governance platform at Utrecht University has been hosting a film series titled Re-imagining the University. After four inspiring screenings, we will close this academic year with a thematic walk exploring the Traces of Slavery in the very buildings where we study, teach and conduct our research.
15 June 2025 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on: Who Are 'Humans' in Military AI?
Utrecht University and the Asser Institute are organising a workshop on 13 June 2025 to understand and evaluate who are ‘humans’ involved in – or excluded from – the development and use of AI systems in the military domain. Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500 words. The workshop will be combined with a keynote lecture on 12 June, open to students, researchers, practitioners, and the wider public.
For more information and registration, please click here!
Mini-Series: The Dutch Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
The Contesting Governance Platform, under its Palestine Lab priority area, presents a mini-series dedicated to exploring and unpacking the multifaceted and interconnected ways in which the Netherlands is implicated in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this series critically examines the roles and responsibilities of Dutch institutions—academic, corporate, governmental, and local—in the context of the genocide against the Palestinian people. To foster open dialogue, each session features a keynote by a leading expert on the respective theme, followed by a conversation with two of the series’ convenors, and a Q&A with the audience.
Registration is mandatory for each event.